Twenty Years of Crisis

The Violent Dissolution of Yugoslavia in International Law
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-956615-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The Yugoslav crisis brought armed conflict to the heart of Europe. It involved the dissolution of a state, internal armed conflict and external armed intervention, ethnic cleansing and probable genocide on a scale not seen since the second World War. These developments created complex challenges of state recognition, peace-keeping and peace enforcement, and humanitarian intervention. This book investigates the international responses to these developments from the
beginning of the crisis in 1988 to its provisional termination with the independence of Kosovo in 2008. The book critically examines the application of diplomatic and international legal tools to the dramatic events in the former Yugoslavia, and assesses the performance of the international agencies
and governments involved. Moreover, it considers the impact of the episode on our understanding of the legal rules governing self-determination and secession, internal armed conflict and external intervention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weller, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Marc Weller is a Reader in International Law and International Relations in the University of Cambridge, the Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues, a Fellow of Hughes Hall and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is also the Director of the Cambridge Carnegie Project on the Settlement of Self-determination Disputes. He has been active as a legal advisor in relation to most aspects of the Yugoslav conflict, and in many other
international peace settlements. His most recent publications include Universal Minority Rights (Oxford University Press 2007), Contested Statehood: the International Administration of Kosovo's Struggle for Independence (Oxford University Press, 2008), Settling Self-determination Disputes (Nijhoff
2008), Peace Lost (Nijhoff 2008) and The Future of International Law (Polity 2009).